how i got cultured

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In the book How I Got Cultured, Phyllis Barber tells the story of her childhood in a western Mormon household. Through stories and episodes of her early life she descriptively explains the difficulties she faces between her Mormon values and her desire to become a successful star. She wants to be noticed, and be the center of everything, and the Mormon Faith allows very little tolerance for this behavior in that they are a very conservative group. She uses her talents and abilities to assist her in her search of her “culture”
I can definitely relate to Phyllis Barber in this dilemma, though she comes from a totally different faith and also era. Growing up in a strict Christian household gives me a sense of what Barber is trying to tell us in her memoir. When I was younger I played football and was crushed when the season in my seventh grade year came to an end when my mother wouldn’t let me play because it interrupted my Christian life, in that I wasn’t attending youth group during the week anymore.
In contrast to Barber, my childhood environment was extremely rich with culture and the battle between right and wrong was a very difficult one in that perception of right and wrong differentiated between faith and the real world. Barber struggled to find her “culture.” She frequently speaks of the Hoover Dam, I think she refers to the Hoover Dam as a symbol that represents the separation that I talked about. She is stuck between two worlds: Mormonism and a place where talent could forge it’s own path.
She describes that the Dam separates Arizona and Nevada. In my opinion, this is a direct reflection of her life.
Not only is Barber constricted by her Mormon faith to live the life she dreams of, but she is faced with the moral value of a woman perceived in the fifties. She isn’t “supposed” to want the things that she does, or dream the dreams she dreams at night. She is “supposed” to be quiet and stand to the side and not “shine.”
She continues to tell not only of her love for attention through music, but also through dance. She is introduced to ballet, which, to say the least, begins to satisfy her quench for culture. Throughout the book she is exposed t many amazing people, and learns much from them.

it is to be cultured, how many other cultures you could possibly belong to, or why culture is important for our present and future society. Being able to reflect on one’s own individual cultural identity as well as respect the understanding of others’, can be an up most powerful feeling. First, we must understand that the definition of culture goes beyond the society’s stereotype of what is race and ethnicity and how that defines what culture you belong to.
In lecture we discussed how, “culture is

two Acts demonstrate the contrast between the
low cultured Rita and the high cultured Rita. At the end of the first
Act the audience can sympathise with Rita's position, she belongs to
neither social class at this point in time. She is stuck in a void,
which if she is to break through she must discard all that is holding
her back. In this essay I wish to examine Rita's feeling towards
herself and others at the end of the first Act, and how she values her
new levels of education.
As the

Cave Paintings of Lascaux, I cannot help but wonder about the original painters of the cave. Based on how their artifacts were exhibited at the museum, I was intrigued to learn more about the culture of the Cro-Magnon people during their existence in Lascaux, France. With the help of my learning thus far in cultural psychology, what details could help me believe that the Cro-Magnon were cultured at all, and how exactly did these details help me define their culture?
I noticed was that these individuals

egotistical and seductive.
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The writer, Tennesse Williams uses symbolism and imagery to help convey the idea that Blanche is deceptive, egotistical and seductive. We can clearly discover how deceptive Blanche is by the symbolism that Williams uses throughout the play. One can note how Blanche continually wears white dresses or a red kimono when she is being especially flirtatious, so that she makes people think that she is innocent and pure. In Scene Five Blanche's white dress, a

The Civilized and Self-Cultured Black Man
In Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave, Written by Himself, Frederick Douglass faces the problem of detailing his transformation from slave to man in a manner which is acceptable to both his audience and his own authorial purpose. Douglass must walk the thin line between being powerful and being threatening to his white audience. He attempts to avoid becoming a threat by appropriating the image of a self-made man, as defined

which were spoken of or retold by the actors in the
play. The movie also included several actors while the play only
featured two, Frank and Rita. In this essay I am going to explore how
the film illuminates parts of the text when performed on stage.
Although most of the details are small and subtle, they have a great
impact on how the story portrayed. The movie offers much more background
information on other characters and events that are important to the
story.
The play is much more

studies takes both high and low culture into account. Cultural studies is the field of research which uses a broad definition of culture, but also studies mass and elite culture. In this essay I will focus on the political discipline and how most Latin American countries shifted to neoliberal governments. I will do so by relating mass and high culture to Neoliberalism in Latin America.
Latin America is in terms of politics a turbulent region. After the world crisis in 1929 the industries in Latin

that, “Neat people are bums and clods at heart. They have cavalier attitudes toward possessions, including family heirlooms. Everything is just another dust-catcher to them”(Britt 315). Britt expresses through her words that neat do not care about how they got there, they just want the quality. Readers can see that she does not like neat people because perhaps she was or knew someone that had the same characteristics. In the end of the essay, she said, “Neat people operate on two unvarying principles:

impresses his new student by his irreverent humor and easy-going manner. Trying to deflate her respect for his seemingly impressive academic accomplishments, he says: "I am afraid, Rita, that you will find that there is much less to me than meets the eye." To which Rita replies: "See, y' can say dead clever things like that, can't y? I wish I could talk like that. It's brilliant." In spite of Frank's initial attempt to excuse himself from his assignment and to repair to a pub, he eventually gives in to

I have recently been listening to a lot of Motown music and even jazz. I have never before explored music in the extent that I have done this semester. I always thought of myself as “cultured” but this semester, I’ve begun to realize there are more areas of music that I have not explored than those which I have. And as I explore culture and cross-cultural linkages in our music, I realize how much one generation’s music ‘speaks’ to the next.
Currently, the song I am intrigued